Unit test framework

[Anatol Pomazau <An...@epam.com>]

I've just start to use unit tests for my aplications and I have a
questions (& topic for discuss) to developers (those who develop web
applications)
Q1) What unit test framework best suits for web application?
	I've found 2 resembling frameworks HttpUnit and HtmlUnit - which
frw better and what differense between them.
Q2) Is anywhere analogues StrutsTestCase
(http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net/) for Tapestry.
Q3) Where can I get examples of "real" unit testing, not only simple
praxis.

Sorry for my English and thx for future answers.

 
Sincerely,
Anatol Pomazau 
<epam>
EPAM Systems, Minsk, Belarus
 

Re: Unit test framework

[Dirk Olmes <di...@xanthippe.ping.de>]

Anatol Pomazau wrote:
> I've just start to use unit tests for my aplications and I have a
> questions (& topic for discuss) to developers (those who develop web
> applications)

Well, first of all make sure that you partition your app properly: model 
code in its own classes, gui code just uses that. Then you can unit-test 
your model with plain junit and there's not much left for testing the 
gui (hopefully).

> Q1) What unit test framework best suits for web application?
> 	I've found 2 resembling frameworks HttpUnit and HtmlUnit - which
> frw better and what differense between them.

I stumbled over HtmlUnit just recently and had a quick look at it. I 
worked with HttpUnit much more before and like it better.

Sidenote for those not knowing the two frameworks: HtmlUnit has an API 
where you work with browser-like constructs (Buttons, TextFields etc.) 
where HttpUnit works more like generating requests and getting 
responses. HttpUnit can be programmed like HtmlUnit, though.

Personally, I like HttpUnit better. The fact that you can always get the 
complete HTML Source of any page in the testing progress is a big 
advantage over HtmlUnit.

For real testing convenience check out WebTest 
(http://webtest.canoo.com). They built a layer on top of HttpUnit so you 
can write your gui tests as a series of ant scripts.

HTH,

-dirk